Why Doesn't the State Assign Partners?

"I hold the sun and moon in my hands and pluck the stars!"

"There is no one else in this world like me!"

"Awooo!!!"

Wang Ji rode atop a great white shark he had just thoroughly beaten up, standing on its back with his hands on his hips and his feet clamped around its dorsal fin as he howled at the sky.

He might have been fast while swimming on his own, but the waves smacking into his face... hurt.

Besides, they were getting close to shore. He needed to be careful not to get spotted and slow down a little... It definitely was not because he wanted to bully this big fellow.

A great white shark nearly six meters long was undoubtedly the apex predator of these waters. It probably never imagined that some lunatic would suddenly appear before it and try to mount it on sight!

Before it could even open its mouth to say whether it allowed that or not, it got beaten senseless. Its fins were nearly punched right off!

And now, it had been forcibly mounted and turned into a steerable ride. It had no temper left at all.

In a fish's life, there were always one or two things that did not go its way. It just had to endure.

That was why people said a gentleman should be cautious when alone. Left by himself, he was bound to do no good.

Wang Ji had never felt this exhilarated in his life.

He raced across the sea, splitting the waves. He shouted when he wanted to shout, laughed when he wanted to laugh, cried out at the top of his lungs, and incidentally bullied the great white shark that had scared him half to death as a child.

But this was how life ought to feel—this carefree.

From childhood to now, he had never been able to let himself go like this. He did not dare indulge himself, did not dare get into conflicts, could not afford to get hurt, and did not dare fall ill.

Because he had only himself. There had never been anyone behind him.

If he fell, then he fell.

No one would help him up.

He liked this gene. Even though he suspected there might be hidden dangers and had his concerns, he still liked it.

As for the satellites watching him from the sky, he knew. Focused electromagnetic waves at fixed frequencies had been trained on him all along; his chicken dinner domain had warned him long ago.

Judging by the timing, he roughly guessed that General Du Kao and the others were monitoring him, but he did not care.

From now on, he would live freely and without restraint. So long as he did not break the law, no one could tell him what to do.

When war came, he would go fight.

And the satellite surveillance had withdrawn before he finished dealing with the great white shark. It no longer kept him locked on.

"Alright, stop here. I'm leaving."

Still far from the shoreline, Wang Ji called a halt to Little White—Little White, what a poetic name...

The great white shark, Little White, had clearly figured out who Big Brother was. Its intelligence was adequate. After getting beaten up, it let him ride it, swam wherever he told it to, and stopped whenever he told it to stop.

Now, it hovered obediently at the surface, looking at its big brother in the water with tears in the corners of its eyes.

"Ah... Looks like you're still a little reluctant to part with me."

Wang Ji floated in the water and stroked Little White's skin, feeling somewhat reluctant himself. "Live well. Big Brother will come visit you when he has time.

As the saying goes, if I get rich, Xuanji Huang... ah, screw that. Don't forget each other.

Once Big Brother makes it big, I'll turn you into a spirit too..."

With that, he turned and waved. "Don't miss Big Brother!"

He pulled out a fuzzy green outfit and put it on, then dived underwater. One fish and one man headed off in opposite directions, neither looking back.

Avoiding the parts of the beach too close to ordinary people, Wang Ji quietly came ashore, found a place to take off his Ghillie Suit, then openly appeared on Jinsha Bay Beach in Zhanjiang City.

He had also changed out of his original trendy Chinese-style clothes and into a new Beach Outfit. He leisurely made his way to a barbecue stall, ordered a huge spread of food and drinks, and began eating at ease.

Cheating did not consume much biological energy, but after going at it for so long, he really did need a large amount of food to replenish his energy reserves.

"Handsome, do you mind if I sit here?" A long-haired beauty in a bikini with a lovely figure came to his table, pointed at the empty seat across from him, and asked softly.

Wang Ji had refined features, sword-like brows, and bright eyes. He smiled faintly and nodded. "I mind."

It was not even mealtime yet. Aside from him, a starving ghost, there were plenty of empty seats. He had no interest in suddenly stumbling into some beachside romantic encounter.

An encounter with no possible outcome would be far too much of a loss for a virgin like him.

"Hmph~ You're awful~"

Perhaps his rejection had not been tactful enough. The bikini beauty did not insist, merely swayed away in a huff.

She was a decent girl, but Wang Ji could see last night's fun and games on her. He truly had no interest in chatting...

"Ah..."

As Wang Ji gnawed on a skewer, he sighed softly. Come to think of it, he had reached the age to go into heat... to fall in love.

That had been his own plan.

At the proper age, he would do what he was supposed to do. Before eighteen, studies came first. After eighteen, he would find a girl suited to him and have a relationship headed toward marriage.

If he did not plan for himself, no one else would do it for him...

If he was lucky, he might even give his parents a grandson.

Later, he would take his wife and child to visit his parents' graves every holiday, telling them... that he had started a family.

Just as he had done before, when he went to his parents' graves and told them he had entered middle school, high school, university, and then graduated from university.

Sometimes, he told them he had been bullied, or that he had earned a scholarship, when he had done poorly on an exam, when he had done well... Come to think of it, it was nearly time to renew the fee for his parents' graves.

Wang Ji remembered that before leaving the cemetery on his eighteenth birthday, he had promised them he would find a girlfriend as soon as possible and no longer be alone.

So they could rest easy.

"I forgot to ask whether the state assigns partners..." he sighed wistfully, somewhat regretful.

If it did not, he would have to find one himself.

Although plenty of young women were staring at his peerless face, that was not what he wanted. At the very least, they had to share their true feelings with each other... Though really, he had never given anyone the chance.

Thinking about it, he was quite the failure. With looks like his, the first girl he had wanted to pursue had rejected him without hesitation.

He had exchanged a few more words with Du Qiangwei, only for her father to put him in his place... Tch~

Where was he supposed to find a girlfriend suited to who he was now, someone who could make his heart flutter?

Wang Ji sighed again, unable to help lamenting—he had practically been about to become emperor, yet his dream had only gotten halfway before a bunch of aliens woke him up.

If he became emperor, would girls even be a problem?

And he would soon enter the Super God Academy. It seemed there were only a few girls in the entire academy, and one of them had been exposed by him and might not even be activated.

Even if she was activated, she had already rejected him. There was no chance.

Du Qiangwei was half alien. Though she apparently still counted as an Earthling, her father's attitude was obvious. He was still keeping that little padded jacket for himself... Du Qiangwei might not have noticed, but Wang Ji understood perfectly well.

The Sun Goddess... an alien, and that black windbreaker look from before had made her seem a little aloof.

He did not like aloof girls.

Rui Mengmeng looked a little dumb. He did not like dumb girls... Though she might actually be smart.

Lian Feng... Ahem, he was thinking too far ahead.

"I should work harder... A great war is approaching. I need to fight, but I also need to build a family." Wang Ji silently made up his mind. He did not believe that an enemy remained undefeated, so how could he think of home?

He made his own decision, just as he had so many times before. He would be the master of his own life.

"Where should I go for a stroll? Tianhe City?"